This is definitely a super

rough version of a song idea, and needs some serious tweaking, but since it's one of my first attempts at writing something orchestral in Logic, I thought it'd be fun to share and document here. With my new laptop, I now have access to Logic Pro X; I've become SO accustomed to Ableton, so learning a new DAW is a bit of a challenge, but I'm making progress. I've been watching a lot of tutorials, and just sort of playing around within the application, and I'm (slowly) getting the hang of things, lol. There are a few major mistakes in this tune, which I left in, so I can try and fix them up over the course of a few posts.

Listen to The Giant's Realm here.

Logic comes with a really

extensive sound library, and some pretty great sounding orchestral instruments. Some of the higher-range strings and brass have a bit of a fake/digital sort of sound, though that can be tweaked to make them feel a bit more realistic and human. Track 1 provides the harp here, which is where I started. I just played each part with 'musical typing' (using the [laptop] keyboard as a [musical] keyboard, lol), then went in and fixed things up, either by hand or with quantization. Track 2 provides the cellos, which utilize a few different articulations throughout. Logic offers an awesome feature where a single instrument can use multiple articulations on different notes, which allows you to get a more realistic effect.

Track 1, Harp.

Listen to The Giant's Realm here.

Track 2, Cellos/Violas.

Track 3 is an oboe,

which just provides a basic little line. I mostly added this just to play around with the woodwinds, and see how they sound. Track 4 is the last non-percussion instrument, with a tuba providing some legato lines in the lower range. The last two tracks are orchestral percussion, and timpanis, which is where I made the most mistakes. Generally, they're little things that are off-beat, or too quiet, or in the case of the kicks, far too weak and a bit odd with the sound of orchestral tracks. There is also a point in the middle of the tune where, when we should return back to the beginning of a section, things jump ahead by a 1/16th note. Apparently, I pasted things offbeat, and didn't discover it until I listened later, lol.

Stay tuned, as I'm going to continue trying to learn more about Logic, which will ideally make writing a smoother process. I spent a lot of time here just correcting mistakes and accidental things I would add by clicking Ableton hot-keys, forgetting I'm not using it, hehe. I'll make sure to do an update as I work on this track more, and fix the mistakes, hopefully making this much more interesting and pleasant to listen to!